Clothes-washing attachment for set tubs.



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CLOTHES WASHING ATTACHMENT POR SET TUBS. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2,1911.

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EBEN CAVENDER, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLOTHES-WASHING ATTACHMENT FOR SET TUBS.

To all whom t may concer/n:

Be it known that I, EenN CAVENDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city ot Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useili'ul ClotheslVashing r-rttaehment for Set Tubs, of which the following is a specification.

rl`he principal objects of the present invention are to provide a. washing machine attachment which can be readily connected and disconnected with an ordinary set washing tub such as is usually installed in dwellings and which is firmly and properly held therein :tor use; to provide for properly securing the fixed part of a washing machine in place in an ordinary set tub; and to provide a convenient, comparatively .inexperisive and etlicient machine for satisfactorily washing clothes in a set tub thereby obtaining the advantage ot' hot and cold water and drainage.

The invention will be claimed at the end hereol" but will first be described in connection with the en'ibodiment of it chosen from among various embodiments for illustration in the accompanying drawings in which-- Figure 1, is a front view, partly in elevation but principally in section, illustrating a clothes washing attachment embodying features of the invention in application to a set tub. Fig. 2, is a sectional view partly in section of the same, and Fig. 3, is a view illustrating a detail of construct-ion.

In the drawings there is a base comprising a. member l, having at each end a pair of rigid arms 2 and 3, iitted at their ends with clamps 4, and whereot' only the arms 2, are upright and the arms 3, are inclined in respect to the member 1. The member l, is arranged at the bottom of the tub 5. The elan'lping members of the arms 2, engage the top edges oit the end walls G, of the tub and the clamping devices of the arms 3, engage the top edge of the tront wall 7, ot' the tub. There is a swinging frame pivotally connected as at S, at or near one ot its edges with the base, and this iframe consists ot' end pieces 9, shown as of inverted T-shape and of a rail 10, connecting the heads of the end pieces and rails or strips 1l and 12, connecting the ends of the arms of the end pieces. This structure constitutes a dasher. The rail Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 2, 1911.

Patented Dee. 2, 1913. Serial No. 647,322.

12, is shown as ot' the form of an inverted trough and is detachably connected with the end pieces, it'or example, by means of a pinand slot 13, and a catch 111. The catch consists ot' a bolt attached, so as to be movable, to the part 12, and this bolt is adapted to engage and disengage a keeper attached to the part 9. The bolt overlies the pin on the part 12, so that when the bolt is free from its keeper the pin can be lifted out of the slot in the part 9. rlhe part 12, can therefore readily be removed itor the purpose of putting in or taking out clothes.

15, is a handle by means of which the dasher can be operated back and forth and this handle is shown as working in a slot in the cover or `lid l0. The clamping devices Ll, may be adjustably connected with their arms by means ol a slot and set screws 17, as shown in Fig. 3. The rails 11, are shown as of trough-like section.

In use the arms 2 and 3, by engaging the top edges of the side walls 6, and the top edge oi. the front wall 7, hold the base firmly in proper position in the tub, and the dasher with its various trough-shape rails and ilat rail 10, when swung back and forth etlicieutly washes the clothes. The water and drainage connections of the set tub make a washing operation easy and convenient and the device can be applied to any ordinary set tub and successfully held therein for operation.

That I claim. is:

A clothes washing attachment tor set tubs comprising arms constituting a fixed frame and extending from the bottom of the tub and terminating at the top edge ot the tub and .vhereotl some clamp the lfront wall and some the end walls ot the tub, in combination with a. single swinging lrame consisting oi end pieces and rails and provided at its top edge with an upwardly extending handle, and a pivotal connection arranged at the bottom oit the tub and connecting the fixed 'trame and the lower edge ot' the swinging iframe, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name.

hereunto EISEN CAVENDEP. In the presence ot`- CLIFFORD K. Cassin., K. M. GILLIGAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C.

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